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The Official Paracast Political Thread! — Part Five

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S.R.L. said:
When the top 1 percent now own 50.1 % of the world’s wealth, that vision seemingly fades, as corporations ultimately need consumers (humans) to consume more & more disposable products in boosting their bottom line. Coupled with the fact that educators are woefully underpaid and lacking resources for basic educational supplies doesn’t help much either.
The correct course is crippled from global power struggles through the desire of religious superiority and greed that one day may torpedo humanity.
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There's an app for that greed... it's called Trump LOL
 
Ezechiel said:
Why the U.S. ended up outsourcing ?

INDIA:
Annual living costs for an undergraduate student (350,000 Rupies = 5,000 USD) per year... all inclusive costs.) leaving US college grads with humongous debt?

The first factor that you need to consider is that the annual cost of education combined with living is on an average ₹ 350,000. This is far lesser than the cost of education in developed countries like the US or UK.
Education Cost of Studying in India - The Chopras


CHINA:
Approximately 25 million students in China pay an average of $400 to $2,200 a year in tuition (Includes instruction, room/board, and meals) to attend public and private institutions. The rates at China's private institutions vary greatly and many times surpass the average of $2,200. For example, to attend the University of Nottingham in Ningbo students pay $9,000 a year; this may be contributed to the earned degree being from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, a highly respected educational institution.

The Cost of College in China

.... In short, you have a flood of qualified candidates outside the US.

USA:

How Much Does it Cost to Study in the US?
Anyone familiar with the basic rules of averages will have realized that College Board’s estimate is likely to include significant variation in either direction – and this is true. At the very top-tier US universities (the majority of which are private non-profits), fees and living costs are likely to add up to around US$60,000 per year, but it’s also possible to study in the US at a much lower outlay.
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A friend once employed by Berkley Lab in creating climate change models informed me the University of Beijing allowed only the best of the best in admitting a limited amount of new students yearly. Most of these kids would study up to fourteen hours daily while both parents worked. Many of these students have earned the ability to lift their families from abject poverty to immense wealth in one generation.

Knowing two U.S. educators, they both have found gainful employment outside of the country. One on Japan, the other Taipei, have found the means to pay down the balance on student loans.
 
Ezechiel said:
I think robotics and AI will force humans out of the mindless high paying jobs of the past and into a world where higher education and the benefits of critical thinking will steer them away from easily avoidable abominations like Trump.
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That would be a consummation, a genuinely utopian one, that I too devoutly wish for. But I think its achievement would require a widespread spiritual enlightenment, especially in the western cultures that dominate the planet economically and forcefully from the basis of wealth accrued at the expense of underdeveloped countries, not just in terms of the siphoning off of their resources but in the suppression of their rights to manage their own worlds. As in the contemporary situation regarding Mars, we could ethically offer help to its people but are/should be morally restricted from exploiting that struggling planet's resources for our own use. Simone Weil's "The Need for Roots" is one of many texts by her that ground, out of the ground of what we experience on earth, the ethical and moral obligations that all humans sense, but that not all humans pursue and develop. Here is a short exposition of this text:

WORLD CULTURE: The Need for Roots
Reflections on the Moral Thought of Simone Weil

http://www.worldculture.org/articles/15-WORLD CULTURE- The Need For Roots.pdf

.... not to mention the ability to appreciate deep philosophical concepts proposed by Simone Weil and others like her. I’ve never seen Jeb Clampett read Plato.
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Much less translate him, as Weil did. My concern is with how transformations in education in this country, in particular, can be achieved to open the earthworld at large -- the ways that life is lived in numberless other cultures and situations -- to school children, whose hearts, minds, and souls are still open to developing concern for others, who still possess the natural capacity for empathy. And of course access to an extended new kind of education must be made available to all growing children and young adults, and indeed for adults at all ages. Only Bernie Sanders recognizes this and works endlessly toward its achievement.

Robotics and globalization force humans on to a higher plane of existence... those that don’t adapt curl back into a protective fetal position crying about yesterday. (When America was apparently great)
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All the mistakes of the past must be recognized in what the young are taught -- and in the culture at large, especially in the US. Yes, widespread application of robotics could free up time for everyone to seek answers to their questions about our history, politics, and economic power structure -- how we got to the point we're at now. I say 'could' because everything depends on what becomes possible for the population at large for the constructively beneficial use of their time. Globalization has developed on two levels, imo. On one level, the level on which self-aggrandizing corporate interests have agglomerated among certain countries and become more difficult to regulate in the public interest here and elsewhere, the effect has been largely negative. On the other level, the level on which human beings around the planet have become aware, through communication/media technologies, of the existence of one another across oceans, the effect has been beneficial. We are more aware of one another and of the conditions of life in which others exist, and this has provided fertile ground for efforts to alleviate rather than worsen, or simply accept, the unacceptable conditions in which global capitalism has placed human life and other life in colonialized and exploited regions of the world, simultaneously destroying those peoples' sense of self-efficacy.

What we need now are more engineers inventing robots to clean the planet... especially that humongous blob of plastic in the pacific.

Black gold that is... Texas tea.
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I'd love to see robots cleaning the planet, restoring conditions in which earth's ecology can thrive again. How likely is it that that will be the primary use to which robots are put in earth's future when we in the West live in the paranoid presupposition that we need robots for military purposes, to destroy others who might one day be capable of destroying 'us'?
 
Constance said:
I'd love to see robots cleaning the planet, restoring conditions in which earth's ecology can thrive again. How likely is it that that will be the primary use to which robots are put in earth's future when we in the West live in the paranoid presupposition that we need robots for military purposes, to destroy others who might one day be capable of destroying 'us'?
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The first applications are always destructive ie. The atom bomb. If we survive the instantiation of AI we might profit from a derivative like the Cadarache fusion reactor (ITER) which should come online within 20 years.

Military applications using autonomous robotics with embedded (biased) artificial intelligence is the unavoidable next step and obviously the ultimate moral challenge. Every evolutionary step always keeps us on the edge of Armageddon. Chinese saying: ‘may you live in interesting times’ applies here.
 
Ezechiel said:
Military applications using autonomous robotics with embedded (biased) artificial intelligence is the unavoidable next step and obviously the ultimate moral challenge. Every evolutionary step always keeps us on the edge of Armageddon. Chinese saying: ‘may you live in interesting times’ applies here.
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The problem with technology is that it drives our species headlong into futures we would not choose if we anticipated them critically and decided to prevent them. Thoreau wrote during the Industrial Revolution that "things are in the saddle and ride mankind." Even the madness of 'mutually-assured destruction' by nuclear war has not awakened our species to the necessity of protecting the interests of life against the forces we have set loose that can destroy this planet and the life it has fostered. The more blind we become, have become, to the value and actual interests of life, the more self-destructive we become. Our end is assured by what we are doing here.
 
Who would thought that a B list porn star that did not stand out would bring down a president.
Stormy Daniels did what is common, Prostitution. Most do it and charge big bucks.
Lisa Anne commands over $1000 A night.
Others are a little less with Allie James leading the pack at $2000 A night.
Non disclosure not included.

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This is the truest thing I've read all weekend. I'd have more respect for people if they just came out and said this;

"The #Democrats have a single agenda: destroy this president. They do Russia, porn whores, weather, illegal aliens, guns, whatever. It’s a never ending carousel of rotating mantras, each designed to GET TRUMP. Their queen was deprived of her coronation and Trump must be crushed." - James Woods
 
Gene Steinberg said:
You didn’t read that link though.
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I didn't notice it was a link - I missed it. But I get it. The last two elections before Trump - I voted for Obama. But a lot of times you see people who vote on one single issue. Like lots of right wingers will automatically vote for whomever - because they are pro life. I am totally (and always have been pro choice), but I am also pro guns & carrying a concealed handgun. So the push over the cliff with me personally were these few things (regarding the Dems)

The Wall & immigration
sanctuary cities
their stance on guns
their stance on Hillary & Benghazi

I have inlaws that would, without a shadow of a doubt, vote for Jeffrey Dahmer - as long as he had the "D" next to his name. They don't want to hear ANYTHING from another party whether it's a good idea, mediocre idea, terrible idea. If the person isn't a Democrat - forget it.
 
Here's the Republican agenda:

1. Tax cuts for rich people.

2. Take away benefits from the poor and middle class.

3. Reduce pollution controls to allow uncontrolled drilling and coal mining, meaning dirty skies, and more dead people as a result.

The immigration complaints are mostly about preventing brown people from coming here. Trump didn't object when his current wife's parents came here via family (chain) migration. He would not be here if his grandparents weren't here via chain migration. But he doesn't favor family migration that has never been abused.

Why complain about Benghazi and not complain about numerous incidents during W's administration where people died as a result of attacks on American diplomatic facilities? What does Hillary and Benghazi have to do with anything involving current Democrats? She's not running anymore for anything.
 
The last hope that should normally resolve the abominable Trump administration is Robert Mueller and his investigative team.

Mueller embodies 'rule of law' regardless of politics. Trump is 'rule of chaos' coming from the worst of the business world expert at using twisted Machiavellian methods to avoid 'rule of law'.

The entire process and methods (illegal and legal) in the digital age leading to Trump's election needs to be examined in detail to avoid a repeat and protect democracies. If this doesn't happen you can kiss the planet goodbye.

What struck me most was the undignified indecencies during the campaign. IMHO, demeaning nicknames and indecent speech or actions should immediately disqualify a candidate at the presidential level you would think. :confused: WTF if there's a Godwin's law for invoking Hitler... you guys need a new law for Trumpism.

How this fake billionaire got elected probably finds its roots in the disenfranchised 'Honey Boo Boo' crowd that finally found the worse hypnotic and destructive voice for its needs.

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Ezechiel said:
The last hope that should normally resolve the abominable Trump administration is Robert Mueller and his investigative team.

Mueller embodies 'rule of law' regardless of politics. Trump is 'rule of chaos' coming from the worst of the business world expert at using twisted Machiavellian methods to avoid 'rule of law'.

The entire process and methods (illegal and legal) in the digital age leading to Trump's election needs to be examined in detail to avoid a repeat and protect democracies. If this doesn't happen you can kiss the planet goodbye.

What struck me most was the undignified indecencies during the campaign. IMHO, demeaning nicknames and indecent speech or actions should immediately disqualify a candidate at the presidential level you would think. :confused: WTF

How this fake billionaire got elected probably finds its roots in the disenfranchised 'Honey Boo Boo' crowd that finally found the worse hypnotic and destructive voice for its needs.

mama-june-shannon-i-alana-thompson-honey-boo-boo-443617-GALLERY_BIG.jpg
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The 2016 election was a nasty affair. But the election of 1800 was just as bad. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were locked in a tight race. Adams made public an a sexual relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemmings a slave. Jefferson made Adams look like a dictator the "alien and sedition act " muzzled free speech and the press. Think Trump wall is bad? This called for the deportation of every person who was a Frenchman.

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Bob Watson said:
The 2016 election was a nasty affair. But the election of 1800 was just as bad. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were locked in a tight race. Adams made public an a sexual relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemmings a slave. Jefferson made Adams look like a dictator the "alien and sedition act " muzzled free speech and the press. Think Trump wall is bad? This called for the deportation of every person who was a Frenchman.

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US population in 1800, 6 million.

2018: 326 million. You would think historical perspective would guide a society towards improved morals and decency.

Trump is a temporary experiment that will test the foundations of your system. The planet is praying for non-interference in the Mueller investigation. It’s the last hope short of a civil war.
 
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